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Thoughts from Botswana by Lauri Kubuitsile
Writings and thoughts from Motswana writer, Lauri Kubuitsile
Reproduced from https://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.com/2017/09/amabooks-zimbabwean-publisher.html
amaBooks, A Zimbabwean Publisher
amaBooks is a respected publisher located in Bulawayo. They’ve published work by some of the most well-known Zimbabwean writers including Tendai Huchu, John Eppel, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Petina Gappah, among others. It’s run by the irrepressible Jane Morris and her husband Brian Jones. I had the chance to interview Jane about amaBooks, the conversation is below.
Can you tell me a bit about how you started your publishing house?
We could have called ourselves Accidental Publishers rather than amaBooks as we had not planned to start a publishing company. So, no research, no business plan, little knowledge of publishing. At the time, in 2000, I was working as a social worker and trainer and was involved in training volunteers for a charity involved in helping children. Short of money to run the charity, we approached the Bulawayo-based writer John Eppel who kindly donated a collection of his poems. But how to get it published? My husband and I decided to take on the task and, although I had a background in
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Viva McVee arrived that day at the tail end of a dust storm, and as the empty Simba chip packets settled back in the branches of the leafless hedge at the school gate, out of the grey dust appeared a woman. I sat on the lid of the dustbin outside of the airless staff room smoking a cigarette and as she emerged I felt my heart jump and knew, from the look of her, that we were in for something.
“I’m looking for the headmaster,” she said in her odd way, holding each word a fraction of a second too long in her mouth, caressing it with her tongue before letting it loose into the air to be gobbled up by my waiting ears. My eyes rested on her lips- full and red, her eyes- almond and swirlingly deep and luscious, her body- thin waist, broad come-hither hips; I was lost in her physical aura and just as I drifted away into Viva McVee fantasyland, a place I was to spend an inordinate amount of time during the coming weeks, I was pulled back into reality by the cigarette burning my fingers. Throwing it to the ground, I said, “He’s inside. Should I take you?”
The words she spoke that day were rare gems but I didn’t know that just yet. Viva McVee, we were to come to realise, was not big on conversation. It wasn’t that she was a snob, she